Redefining translation and interpretation in cultural evolution /
"This book provides relevant theoretical framework and the latest empirical research findings in the area of culture-related translation research in the context of cultural evolution. It provides insights and support to all other researchers, professionals and trainees concerned with culture an...
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IGI Global,
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Publisher Address: | Hershey, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: | [2017] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series
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http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-2832-6 |
Summary: |
"This book provides relevant theoretical framework and the latest empirical research findings in the area of culture-related translation research in the context of cultural evolution. It provides insights and support to all other researchers, professionals and trainees concerned with culture and communication, e.g. cultural studies, cultural management, communication science, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics"-- |
Carrier Form: | 22 PDFs (xxix, 310 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781522528333 |
Access: | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |
Index Number: | P306 |
CLC: | H059 |
Contents: | Chapter 1. Rewriting the "vanishing present": translation, mediation, and cultural evolution -- Chapter 2. Towards a monolingual world: Indian english fiction and translations in India -- Chapter 3. Gender, translation, and censorship: the well of loneliness (1928) in Spain as an example of translation in cultural evolution -- Chapter 4. Cultural and linguistic interferences in the translation of Maus into Spanish: proposal of homogeneous translation strategies based on transcreation -- Chapter 5. Cultural evolution, memes, and proper names -- Chapter 6. Cultural change and cultural mediation in the translation of culture-specific lexis -- Chapter 7. Cultural evolution and cultural translation: a case of Malaysian-Chinese and Singaporean-Chinese -- Chapter 8. The strata of subcultural translation: sources of fragmentation in globalizing societies -- Chapter 9. When cultural evolution calls for translation revolution: resistance and rupture in Brazilian translations -- Chapter 10. Factoring the agency of patronage in the production of meaning: the evolving landscape of literary translation practice -- Chapter 11. Exploring agency in translation: the case of the early culture-planners during the republican period in Turkey -- Chapter 12. The interpreter as a cultural agent: the cultural role of interpreters over time -- Chapter 13. Towards a re-definition of government interpreters' agency against a backdrop of sociopolitical and cultural evolution: a case of premier's press conferences in China -- Chapter 14. Intercultural communication challenge: the interpreter's role in health care interpreting. |